The Mojo Team is pleased to announce the new release of the Appassembler Maven Plugin 1.7 which contains a number of bug fixes, improvements and a new feature.

The Application Assembler Plugin is a Maven plugin for generating scripts for starting java applications. All dependencies and the artifact of the project itself are placed in a generated Maven repository in a defined assemble directory. All artifacts (dependencies + the artifact from the project) are added to the classpath in the generated bin scripts.

You can use the following Maven coordinates to get the latest version via Maven Central:

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<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>appassembler-maven-plugin</artifactId>
     <version>1.7</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes for Release 1.7

Fixed Bug:

• MAPPASM-215 – The environments variables in the generated batch file are not local.

Improvements:

• MAPPASM-195 – Support other methods of JSW integration than WrapperSimpleApp
• MAPPASM-210 – Allow copyConfigurationDirectory for both script and jsw
• MAPPASM-216 – Add option to pre insert a config fragment into wrapper.conf

New Features:

• MAPPASM-78 – Add support for JSW integration method 2
• MAPPASM-214 – Add ability to configure chkconfig run level

The Mojo Team.